Lady Larkspur

Meredith NicholsonProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 177K words
Chapters: 18

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Lady Larkspur by Meredith NicholsonAuthor: Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Sep 7, 2006

Editor's review

Lady Larkspur is a novel by the American writer Meredith Nicholson, classified under American and Canadian literature and now offered as a free eBook by Project Gutenberg. Nicholson was active from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and his work often has the brisk pace of popular narrative; this book is no exception, unfolding its story around character relationships and social situations in a language that bears the typical marks of English fiction of its time. For readers who want a sense of early twentieth-century American popular fiction, or who wish to train their reading with an English original, it offers a moderately long and accessible entry point. The Gutenberg edition is easy to search and excerpt on electronic devices, making it suitable for fragmented reading on commutes or before bed. Note that this is an English original and a popular work of some age, whose pacing and values differ markedly from contemporary fiction; readers should approach it with a sense of literary history rather than judge it by the standards of today's genre novels.

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Readers who enjoy English-language popular fiction in the original and want to broaden their reading
Enthusiasts studying early twentieth-century American literature and popular narrative
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Readers seeking fast-paced modern genre fiction with strong plots
Those who strongly dislike the values and narrative methods of older works

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About the author

Meredith Nicholson Author · American · 1866–1947

Meredith Nicholson (1866–1947) was an American author, political figure, and diplomat from Indiana. He is best known as a novelist who, together with Booth Tarkington and others, helped create a golden age of Indiana literature. His representative works include The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, and A Hoosier Chronicle, all of which were national bestsellers. His fiction often blends mystery, social manners, and local life, with engaging plots and fluent prose that won him a wide readership. Beyond literature, he served as U.S. minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, achieving distinction in diplomacy as well. The library holds twelve of his works, including The Madness of May, Blacksheep! Blacksheep!, The Siege of the Seven Suitors, Lady Larkspur, and Otherwise Phyllis. Public information is limited, and further details of his life and full body of work remain to be studied.